• Workaround: some JPG files seem to be saved with a TIF extension by some programs or archives. As long as our graphics library does not handle JPG natively by itself we will try to load TIF extensions that are not recognized as TIF as a JPG.
• Bugfix: in some rare cases opening a certain PNG image caused an access violation.
• Bugfix: possible memory leak fixed in the graphics library.

Genealogists always have had questions on how to do their genealogy, how to find certain records, and whether there is any information available on the family lines they are researching. To date, there has not been one specific place they could go to ask their questions and get answers.

Born on August 31, 1949, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Gere is a descendant of Mayflower Pilgrims Francis Eaton, John Billington, George Soule, Richard Warren, Degory Priest, William Brewster and Francis Cooke.

Gere's mother, Doris Anna (née Tiffany), was a homemaker, and his father, Homer George Gere, was an insurance agent for the Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company and had originally intended to become a minister.

• Fixed problem pasting multiple images from iScrapKits at once.
• Fixed a problem copying and pasting iScrapKit images after a document is transferred from another computer.
• Fixed problem that was caused when graphics incorrectly had their size set to zero.
• Fixed problem dragging and dropping large images onto the canvas such that they get resized and positioned better.
• Fixed a problem that locked up the Font Preview.
• Removed contact access to avoid triggering Mountain Lion contact access.
• Mountain Lion compatibility.

• Context Diagram: Tweaked the text display to account for a bug on Mountain Lion.
• Application Signing: Signed the application with an Apple Certificate. (But not the installer). You may still be required to change the settings on Mountain Lion to allow installation from “Mac Store + Registered Developers”.

• Error in export to xml of family order in 3.4.0, now fixed.
• Crash in windows after some use due to too much terminal output in 3.4.0, now fixed.
• Some platform-specific fixes (Windows, OSX).
• Translation updates.

• Fixed a problem of overlapping pictures with the new feature on the Register Report for showing all children in the next generation.
• Added an option to show Divorce on the Tree chart, Box chart, and 4 Family Box chart.
• Added an option to show if descendants are Adopted, Step, Foster on the Tree chart.
• Added an option to show if children are Adopted, Step, Foster on the Group sheets (but not when using the compressed option for children.)
• On the Compute Relationship screen, add new button to set options for Box chart
• Option to show occupation, ref. num, or dates for parents of spouses on Register Book and Indented Book report (notes/children tab)

• Reports in AQ 14 for Users of AQ 12.1: The list reports that were blocked in AQ Basics, but were part of AQ 12.1, were supposed to still be available to those with a key for 12.1 while using AQ 14. In AQ 14.0 build 4, the printing of these reports was fixed. With build 5, the preview of these reports for those with a version 12/12.1 key was also fixed.

A man dug up his father's headstone and brought it to a Veterans Affairs Canada office, more than two decades after he was buried in St. John's, because the department failed to look after the gravesite —and now he plans to return the Second World War veteran's medals.

Gerald Fleming was a Second World War veteran who died in 1988. He was buried at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Mount Pearl. Veterans Affairs paid for his headstone, but Fleming said the department failed to take care of it.

Buffett was born on August 30, 1930, in Omaha, Nebraska, the only son of Leila (née Stahl) and businessman/politician Howard Buffett, and second of three children. He worked at his grandfather's grocery store.

In 1943, Buffett filed his first income tax return, deducting his bicycle and watch as a work expense for $35 for his work as newspaper delivery boy. In 1945, in his freshman year of high school, Buffett and a friend spent $25 to purchase a used pinball machine, which they placed in a barber shop.

Thousands of documents detailing some of the most shameful acts and crimes committed during the final years of the British empire were systematically destroyed to prevent them falling into the hands of post-independence governments, an official review has concluded.

Those papers that survived the purge were flown discreetly to Britain where they were hidden for 50 years in a secret Foreign Office archive, beyond the reach of historians and members of the public, and in breach of legal obligations for them to be transferred into the public domain.

All that remains of a five-year siege for control of Charleston Harbour during the American Civil War now lies in watery graves amid the harbour’s channels and beneath beaches of nearby islands.

A team of archaeologists at the University of South Carolina, has mapped the Charleston Harbour naval battlefield for the first time, providing historical and archaeological detail on the drawn-out struggle that spanned 1861-1865.

An article in the most recent issue of Journal of Conflict Archaeology' by forensic archaeologist Caroline Sturdy Colls explores the pioneering changes made to the archaeological methodology and techniques used to uncover surviving archaeological remains and landscapes of the Holocaust.

The article discusses a number of case studies, including one conducted by the author on Treblinka extermination camp in Poland which operated between 23 July 1942 and 17 November 1943. During this time over 800,000 Jews were executed at the camp.

The government of the Netherlands and Yad Vashem have agreed to digitally archive documents connected to Dutch rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. The documents will be scanned by Yad Vashem - Israel’s Holocaust commemoration authority - over the coming two years, Yad Vashem deputy spokesperson Yifat Bachrach-Ron told JTA.

Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev and Caspar Veldkamp, the Dutch ambassador to Israel, signed the agreement on starting the process Monday at Yad Vashem.

John McCain III was born on August 29, 1936, at a United States Navy hospital at Coco Solo Naval Air Station in Panama Canal Zone, Panama, to Navy officer John S. "Jack" McCain, Jr. (1911–1981) and Roberta (Wright) McCain (1912– ). McCain is of Scots-Irish and English ancestry.

John McCain's grandparents were natives of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas, and much of his ancestry was Southern on both his mother's side and father's side. The McCain family's patrilineal ancestral home is in Mississippi's Carroll County; they owned and ran a 2,000-acre (8.1 km2) plantation in Teoc from 1848 until 1952.

Barry Gibb was born on September 1, 1946 to Barbara and Hugh Gibb in the Isle of Man. He has an older sister, Lesley (born 1945), and had three younger brothers, fraternal twins Robin (1949–2012) and Maurice (1949–2003), and Andy (1958–1988).

He and his family moved to Chorlton-cum-Hardy in Manchester in 1953. When he was 12 years old, his family moved to Brisbane, Australia, settling in one of the city's poorest suburbs, Cribb Island. The suburb was later bulldozed to make way for Brisbane Airport.

We've all heard the stories. People rummaging around in their attics or cleaning out basements and stumbling upon relics of the past or priceless artifacts or heirlooms.

Museum Executive Director Tanis Monday explained that Jeff Bray and William Tucker, members of Greencastle American Legion Post 58 on Indianapolis Road, were cleaning out the attic at the building when they came upon something quite special.

Archaeologists are hoping to find the lost grave of King Richard III under a Leicester car park, which they believe was once the site of a church where the medieval monarch was buried more than 500 years ago.

Richard III, the last Plantagenet, ruled England from 1483 until he was defeated at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. It is believed his body was stripped and despoiled and brought to Leicester, where he was buried in the church of the Franciscan Friary, known as Greyfriars.

The world’s oldest living person reached another milestone Sunday when she celebrated her Sweet 116. Monroe, Ga., woman Besse Cooper has become only the eighth person in the world — and the fourth American — verified to have turned that age, according to Guinness World Records.

Cooper, whose maiden name was Brown, was born on Aug. 26, 1896, in northern Tennessee — the same year as comedian George Burns and writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Shania Twain was born Eilleen Regina Edwards on August 28, 1965, in Windsor, Ontario, daughter of Sharon (née Morrison) and Clarence Edwards.

Her parents divorced when she was two and her mother then moved to Timmins, Ontario with Eilleen and her sisters Jill and Carrie Ann. Sharon married Jerry Twain, an Ojibwa, and they had a son together, Mark. Jerry adopted the girls, legally changing their last name to Twain.

Phoenix was born as River Jude Bottom, on August 23, 1970 in Madras, Oregon, the first child of Arlyn Sharon Dunetz and John Lee Bottom.

His mother was born in The Bronx, New York, to Jewish parents whose families had emigrated from Russia and Hungary. His father was a lapsed Catholic from Fontana, California. In 1968, Phoenix's mother left her family in New York City and travelled across the United States, meeting John Lee Bottom while hitchhiking in northern California.

David Crosby was born on August 14, 1941 in Los Angeles, California. His parents were Aliph Van Cortlandt Whitehead and Floyd Crosby, an Academy Award winning cinematographer.

He is also the younger brother of musician Ethan Crosby. Growing up in California, he attended several schools, including the University Elementary School in Los Angeles, the Crane Country Day School in Montecito, and Laguna Blanca School in Santa Barbara for the rest of his elementary school and junior high.

A pensioner from East Sussex has retraced his great aunt's footsteps by trekking a World War II escape route across the Pyrenees, in her memory. Jeremy Hodgson discovered after her death that his great aunt Bessie was a wartime spy and part of an elite force known as Churchill's secret army.

In November 1943, with three RAF flight crew, she completed the five-day, 56-mile crossing to escape German capture. Mr Hodgson, from Robertsbridge, made the same crossing in July 2012.

Turns out the rebellious streak may run deep in Mayor Rob Ford’s family. According to Ancestry.ca, the Toronto mayor’s first ancestor in Canada may have been sent here at age 11 because he was “unruly.”

The site traced out the history of Ford’s paternal grandfather, Ernest Ford. Turns out, Ernest Ford came to Canada from England as part of the child immigration scheme and, according to Ancestry.ca, Ford may have been sent to Canada “because he was unruly.”

Sheen was born on August 3, 1940 in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Mary-Ann (née Phelan; 1903–1951) and Francisco Estévez Martinez (1898–1974). Both of Sheen's parents were immigrants, his father from Parderrubias, Galicia, Spain and his mother from Borrisokane, County Tipperary, Ireland.

After moving to Dayton in the 1930s, his father was a factory worker/machinery inspector at the National Cash Register Company. Sheen grew up on Brown Street in the South Park neighborhood, one of ten children (nine boys and a girl).

• Dates for undated items in the indexes of occupations, places and causes of death are now broadly estimated from date of birth/date of death if known. This produces a more appropriate chronological order of items within these indexes.
• Alphanumeric strings are now sorted using "logical" sort on systems using Windows XP or later. This means that "11th Earl" is sorted after "2nd Earl", for example.
• Occupation descriptions starting with a digit do not now have "a/an" added in the narrative. For example "He became a plumber", "He became 2nd Earl".

• Added OSX 10.8 to the list of allowed Operating Systems.
• Replaced the unknown OSX version crash with a dialog suggesting to update.
• Developer certificate has not yet been added. A control click on the installer and selecting “open” will circumvent Gatekeeper.

• Works with RootsMagic 5 files.
• Fixed issues using Mac Family Tree files created in never version of Mac Family Tree.
• Removed IGI Search mode- no longer available on the old FamilySearch.
• Fixed a few crashes.

• The select person screen shows up to 6 spouses instead of 3.
• Fixed problem on Edit with screen size 1280 by 1024 where right scroll bars were not showing.
• Global search and replace can change Event to Other.
• On GEDCOM export if excluding data for living people, and if a person has NO dates, (but spouse is living) then do NOT say "details excluded" since there were no details.
• Register Book. New option to show all children in next generation (even if they had no children of their own.)
• Added 'Legal Name Change' to Events. This is an event instead of being just a name change on the Names tab. However, if you are searching for alternate names, it will also look for this event along with the names on the Names tab.

An extraordinary letter from the nephew of Adolf Hitler has been discovered in which he begs to be allowed to enlist in the U.S. Army to fight against his uncle's facist regime.

William Patrick Hitler fled Nazi Germany when war broke out in 1939 to come and live with relatives in New York. After being rejected from the U.S. Army because of his family connection, he wrote an emotional plea to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942 on why he so strongly wanted to fight for Allied Forces.

Centuries of history is buried in cemeteries around New Zealand, all you have to do is research the person named on the headstones.

Beneath the ground at the cemetery on Symonds St in Auckland Central is the son of a builder who happened to be a witness to the Treaty of Waitangi and two men who drowned in a sailing accident in the 19th century who could only be identified by their clothing.

The Argentine war cemetery in the Falklands, where the bodies of more than 200 soldiers are buried, has been vandalised. The glass that protects a figure of the Virgin Mary at the cemetery has been smashed and shattered.

The Falkland Islands government has condemned the action and has said the police are investigating. Families of the Argentine war dead have described the attack as an "act of sacrilege".